Finger menu and main menu
MultiTaction Canvus has two menus that you use all the time. The finger menu opens wherever you touch the canvas and creates content at that spot. The main menu sits at the edge of the workspace and holds canvas, workspace and device controls.
Open the finger menu
Press and hold an empty part of the canvas.
- Touch the canvas with one finger, a whole hand or a pen, away from any item.
- Keep still. After a moment an animation appears under your finger.
- Keep holding for about 1 second. The finger menu opens around the point you touched.
If you move more than about 50 px, or start a pinch, before the menu opens, Canvus treats the touch as a pan or zoom and does not open the menu. After about 0.6 s of holding you can lift your finger and the menu still opens.
With a mouse, click an empty part of the canvas without moving the pointer.
The finger menu closes by itself after about 10 seconds without use. It stays open while the Drawing mode ring is open.
The finger menu does not open:
- on a canvas you have view-only access to. A message says "Finger menu is disabled in view-only mode";
- while a presentation is running.
Finger menu items
Items that create content place it where you opened the menu.
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| New note | Pick a colour to create a note. See Notes. |
| Drawing mode | Pick a pen colour and thickness, the eraser, or the lasso selection tool. See Pens and ink. |
| Search on internet | Search for images and drag results onto the canvas. See Creating content. |
| Internet | Add a web browser that opens the start page. See Web browser. |
| Files | Open the Canvus folder and drag files onto the canvas. See Canvus folder. |
| Anchor Menu | New anchor creates an anchor at the touch point. New anchor from viewport creates an anchor that covers exactly what you see. See Anchors and zones. |
| Toolbox | Create Table, Connect to video stream, Open Remote Desktop List, Snapshot and Create video output area. |
| Layout | Arrange the items in view: grids, timeline, kanban, declutter, compact, spread and undo. See Spatial intelligence. |
| Macros | Move or copy what you see to or from a zone, pin or unpin everything in view, delete everything in view, and undo. See Canvas macros. |
Open Remote Desktop List is greyed out until an administrator defines RDP connections in mt-canvus.ini. See RDP.
An administrator can add a custom section to the finger menu. See Custom menu.
Finger menu on third-party touch screens
When third-party-touch is enabled, the finger menu changes:
- The centre of the menu holds three mode buttons: finger, pen and eraser. See Pens and ink.
- Snapshot moves from the toolbox to the main ring, and Drawing mode is not shown. Pick the pen mode instead.
- In pen or eraser mode the menu shows pen colours and thickness, or the eraser size, and does not close by itself.
Main menu
Tap Open main menu at the edge of the workspace. The main menu has these sections:
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Top bar | Info (about this installation) and Settings |
| Canvas | Presentations, Anchors, Pin canvas, Uploads, Fit to screen |
| Workspace | Canvas list, Close workspace |
| Video inputs | Connected cameras and capture devices. See Video inputs. |
| Video outputs | Configured outputs. See Video outputs. |
| Disks | Connected USB drives and disks |
- Presentations opens the slide list. See Presentations.
- Anchors opens the anchor list. See Anchors and zones.
- Pin canvas stops the canvas from being moved or zoomed. Tap again to unpin.
- Uploads opens the uploads folder of a shared canvas. See Uploads folder.
- Fit to screen zooms so that all the items on the canvas are in view. See Canvas size and zoom.
- Close workspace asks you to confirm, then closes the workspace.
The main menu closes after 15 seconds without use. Change this with menu-timeout. See Set inactivity timeout for menus.
Settings menu
Tap Settings at the top of the main menu. The settings menu has three sections:
| Section | Pages |
|---|---|
| Workspace | General: show the info panel, always allow web browser popups, snap to canvas items |
| Canvas | Background, Grid, Password, Demo canvas, Codice, Reset colours |
| Client | Default canvas, Default colours, Virtual keyboard, Configuration |
- Reset colours appears only when you can edit the canvas and the server supports colour palettes. See Pens and ink.
- Configuration opens the settings page, where an administrator edits mt-canvus.ini.
- For the canvas pages, see Canvas settings.